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Mobile Madness
Volume 3 — Issue 3— March 2012
www.mesonet.org
The Smart Phone Generation has arrived. Everywhere
we go, people are using their smart phones for everything:
Facebook, Twitter, Google, News, Games, and the list goes
on. Now you can view your favorite Oklahoma weather
website on your smart phone, too. The Oklahoma Mesonet
has both a Mesonet mobile website, m.mesonet.org, and an
iPhone app.
The iPhone app was released January 27 and had 2,367
downloads in 23 days. The iPhone app can be found by
searching for “Mesonet” in the App Store on your iPhone.
If you have an Android, Windows, or Blackberry phone, you
can view the Mesonet mobile website through your phone’s
web browser.
“The current mobile site was developed in about two weeks,”
said Nathan Bain, Manager of Software Development for
the Oklahoma Mesonet. “New updates include using your
phone’s GPS to locate the closest Mesonet site to you on
the local weather page. Also, there is a new help link on the
bottom of the page which shows you how to add the mobile
Mesonet website on your home screen.”
The iPhone app and the mobile website provide the same
data to you in very similar formats, as you can see in side-by-
side comparisons in the “Mesonet in Pictures” section on
pages 2-3. The iPhone app does allow users to zoom in to
see smaller surrounding towns on radar, as well as provides
radar loop playback. The Mesonet is working to add these
options to the mobile website in the future.
“The advantage of our mobile website is we can immediately
update the mobile website whenever we have a new site
or product,” Bain said. “Whereas with the app, we have to
submit an update and get it approved before it will display
in the app. We can get updates to our mobile site users a
whole lot faster than via the iPhone app.”
–by Stephanie Bowen
m.mesonet.org
Android use increasing
25% Android users/50% iPhone/iPad users
on average during early February
34% Android users/44% iPhone/iPad users
on average for the month of February
iPhone App
2,798 app downloads from 1/27-2/29
82 downloads per day - February average
158 downloads on 2/12 (snow storm day)

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Mobile Madness
Volume 3 — Issue 3— March 2012
www.mesonet.org
The Smart Phone Generation has arrived. Everywhere
we go, people are using their smart phones for everything:
Facebook, Twitter, Google, News, Games, and the list goes
on. Now you can view your favorite Oklahoma weather
website on your smart phone, too. The Oklahoma Mesonet
has both a Mesonet mobile website, m.mesonet.org, and an
iPhone app.
The iPhone app was released January 27 and had 2,367
downloads in 23 days. The iPhone app can be found by
searching for “Mesonet” in the App Store on your iPhone.
If you have an Android, Windows, or Blackberry phone, you
can view the Mesonet mobile website through your phone’s
web browser.
“The current mobile site was developed in about two weeks,”
said Nathan Bain, Manager of Software Development for
the Oklahoma Mesonet. “New updates include using your
phone’s GPS to locate the closest Mesonet site to you on
the local weather page. Also, there is a new help link on the
bottom of the page which shows you how to add the mobile
Mesonet website on your home screen.”
The iPhone app and the mobile website provide the same
data to you in very similar formats, as you can see in side-by-
side comparisons in the “Mesonet in Pictures” section on
pages 2-3. The iPhone app does allow users to zoom in to
see smaller surrounding towns on radar, as well as provides
radar loop playback. The Mesonet is working to add these
options to the mobile website in the future.
“The advantage of our mobile website is we can immediately
update the mobile website whenever we have a new site
or product,” Bain said. “Whereas with the app, we have to
submit an update and get it approved before it will display
in the app. We can get updates to our mobile site users a
whole lot faster than via the iPhone app.”
–by Stephanie Bowen
m.mesonet.org
Android use increasing
25% Android users/50% iPhone/iPad users
on average during early February
34% Android users/44% iPhone/iPad users
on average for the month of February
iPhone App
2,798 app downloads from 1/27-2/29
82 downloads per day - February average
158 downloads on 2/12 (snow storm day)